890: The Five Laws to Asking for What You Want with Laura Fredricks
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Laura Fredricks shares battle-tested tips to confidently ask for what you want.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to respond to “I’ll think about it.”
2) Why you want to talk only 25% of the time.
3) Persuasion pitfalls to avoid.
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— ABOUT LAURA —
Laura Fredricks is an author, speaker, and consultant who trains and coaches individuals, businesses, and nonprofits. Her latest book is Hard Asks Made Easy: How to Get Exactly What You Want. Through her previous six books, Fredricks has helped hundreds of global executives, industry trailblazers, marketing and communication leaders, boards, fundraisers, entrepreneurs, teenagers, artists, philanthropists, and everyday people achieve their best professional and personal lives possible.
Since 2005, Fredricks also has taught at New York University School of Professional Studies.
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• Email: laura@expertontheask.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast the show where brilliant |
| 0:05.3 | professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at |
| 0:09.3 | work. Enjoy more career fun wins meaning and money with your host Pete |
| 0:15.2 | LeCaites hello and welcome to episode 890 with Laura Fredericks Laura has some |
| 0:23.8 | super practical tactical actionable use these right now tips and tricks for |
| 0:29.6 | the next time you need to ask for what you want so much good stuff to increase |
| 0:34.4 | the probability that your request gets met with it yes of course here you go |
| 0:39.0 | so you'll learn one how to respond to the all think about that response to why |
| 0:45.9 | you want to talk only 25% of the time and three persuasion pitfalls to avoid |
| 0:51.1 | so if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:54.2 | items that we've referenced here please visit us at awesome at your job.com |
| 0:57.3 | slash EP 890 and I also made your job.com I recommend you sign up for the |
| 1:01.8 | gold nugget email list and this is the gold nugget in particular I think |
| 1:05.2 | you'd probably want to have a visual reference for in terms of what is the |
| 1:10.3 | sequence the protocol the tips to remember something to maybe print out or |
| 1:14.0 | have in your ever note or notes apps so you say okay okay here's what we do |
| 1:18.7 | all right got it so that it is immediately available for you a quick reference |
| 1:23.9 | when it's time for your next request so you get that in the whole archive of |
| 1:27.0 | eight hundred eighty nine other gold nuggets you sign up for the gold nuggets |
| 1:30.0 | at awesome at your job.com here's Laura's story Laura Fredericks is an author |
| 1:33.8 | speaker and consultant who trains and coaches individuals businesses and |
| 1:37.2 | nonprofits her latest book is called hard asks made easy how to get exactly |
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